Lucy's review
The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
by Elizabeth Peters
Lucy's review
The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters
Lucy's review
rating:
bookshelves:
best-ever,
egypt-ancient-et-al,
novels-of-mystery,
reread,
the-mile
#11 in the Amelia Peabody series. Although the following book in the series (He Shall Thunder in the Sky) is arguably Peters's masterpiece, I think this volume in the Amelia Peabody diaries is magnificent. Peters expertly brings the reality of WWI into the Emerson clan, forcing all sorts of revelations and heartache. I would not recommend reading Falcon without He Shall Thunder in the Sky on hand, however. Peters most definitively leaves the reader dangling from a wrenching cliff at the end that can only be alleviated with the immediate reading of He Shall Thunder in the Sky (although, when I read it, I had to wait the year until it came out...).
